The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem.

We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession.

Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.

You need somebody to support the retirees. You need to pay into the pension plans. You need people to work at the hospitals, at the nursing homes.

It's a good thing we have immigrant doctors and immigrant engineers, because if you or I get sick this afternoon, we're going to go to the hospital, and we're going to hope someone serves us.

You know, throughout the world, throughout history, when countries get rich, they stop having kids.

If you have waves of immigration, you better figure out a way to turn those immigrants into red-blooded Americans, or else you end up splintering the society.

We're prosperous enough that we can afford to have one in six able-bodied men of working age sitting at home playing video games.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Being creative is a beautiful thing. Being creative for other people is work. No one wants to work at being creative.

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.

The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian.

Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold.

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.

I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary.